Criticism & Theory
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Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art
$17.95 Add to cartA dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art.
At the age of twenty-one, E… [more below]
- Author: Cardwell, Erica N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1558613811
- Language: English
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Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartContemporary art has never been so popular – but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stallabrass, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198826621
- Language: English
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The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
$44.99 Add to cartIn The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into f
- Author: Lippard, Lucy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565842480
- Language: English
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Letters on Cézanne
$17.00 Add to cartRilke’s prayerful responses to the french master’s beseeching art
For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returne- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 15 2002
- ISBN10: 086547639X
- Language: English
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartThis third essay collection by America’s leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420080
- Language: English
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Self-Portraits
$20.00 Read moreThe self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this collection brings together some of the best examples of self-portraiture
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Rebel, Ernst
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 13 2017
- ISBN10: 3836537095
- Language: English
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Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics
$30.00 Add to cartWhat do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations?
Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptions, ideology of dialectical thinking, and role of est
- Author: Betancourt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0979321557
- Language: English
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Let’s See Pa
$24.95 Add to cartDistinguished critic at The New Yorker since 1998, Peter Schjeldahl has been described as America’s most influential writer on art. Blessed with an unerring eye, he tackles a myriad of subjects with w… [more below]
- Author: Schjeldahl, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0500740100
- Language: English
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Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph
$35.00 Read moreOne of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing some of the greatest work of their long careers–and, in some cases, changing the course of … [more below]
- Author: Lacayo, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1501146580
- Language: English
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Visual Culture
$15.95 Add to cartHow to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, eve
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Boylan, Alexis L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539365
- Language: English
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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
$17.99 Add to cartHow does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influenti
- Author: Salle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0393354962
- Language: English
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Diary of a Genius: Salvador Dali’ S Autobiography: 1952-1963
$17.95 Add to cartDIARY OF A GENIUS stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador DalÃ, the eccentric polymath genius who became the liv… [more below]
- Author: Dali, Salvador
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1840686847
- Language: English
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Why the Museum Matters
$18.00 Add to cartA powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future
Art museums have played a vital role in ou- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Weiss, Daniel H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276850
- Language: English
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
$18.00 Add to cartNo philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects – despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 1994
- ISBN10: 014043335X
- Language: English
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Green: The History of a Color
$42.00 Add to cartIn this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to to
- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 24 2014
- ISBN10: 069115936X
- Language: English
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Sensing Earth: Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe
$28.95 Read moreEssays, manifestos and more on the ecological complexities and contradictions of the art industry
Through essays, interviews, poetry, manifestos, choreographic prompts, speculative fiction and case stu
- Author: Dietachmair, Philipp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 9493246248
- Language: English
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Ways of Drawing: Artists’ Perspectives and Practices
$45.00 Read moreDrawing is among the most direct ways of engaging with the world; a way not just of seeing, but of understanding what you see. At once inspirational and instructive, Ways of Drawing collects a rich va
- Author: Royal Drawing School, The
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0500021902
- Language: English
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Art Can Help
$16.00 Read moreA collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society
In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photograp- Author: Adams, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0300260245
- Language: English
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Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development
$32.99 Add to cartAlong with Adler and Jung, Otto Rank was one of the intellectual giants in the inner circle around Sigmund Freud. Art and Artist, his major statement on the relationship of art to the individual and s… [more below]
- Author: Rank, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0393305740
- Language: English
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Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships–with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stiegli… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Roxana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 679
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1684580323
- Language: English
